Real Estate Blog Lab

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Starting a Post with an Image
If you start a post with an image even if it is just a small image to the side of the text the image code will be the first words of your post. [...]

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It was early on Saturday morning September 27th when I was on my little PR1 blog For No REal Reason when I looked up and noticed the little bit of green that had been there was missing. Hum! different data center? Nope PR update. I lost my lowly little PR.

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Widgets were built into the basic structure of Wordpress about a bazzilion versions ago.  One of those widgets native to Wordpress is the RSS Widget.  It is a very powerful tool for WordPress bloggers but I don’t see it being used very often.
We all know that fresh content is one of the things Google bots [...]

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I’m thinking about creating a designation for Comments in an effort to make managing comments easier.  I’m doing this for two reasons.
Do Follow SEO Lists
There are now multiple lists of blogs which allow or use “do follow” on their blogs comments.  These list have lead to an increase in what I refer to as comment [...]

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First, I don’t usually write this kind of post here at the Lab. But I’m writing this one for several reasons.

I have to thank Todd Carpenter and Jason Berman for putting together a fantastic conference for REBloggers
I need to suck up to both of them because next year (REBlogworld09 October 15, 2009) I [...]

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ActiveStrain.com “Outside in the Rain” is an Outside Blog set up to demonstrate the difference between an Active Rain Outside blog and an Open Source Wordpress Blog.
It is a tongue in cheek look at Outside blogs which Rich Jacobson and I will be debating at REBlogworld on Friday of this week ( Sept. 19,2008 ).  [...]

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There has been a lot written about comment spam including the taboo comment example of “Great Post”.  Did you know there is a time when it is appropriate to to leave a comment “Great Post”.
Today I had a “Great Post comment which inspired this post.  The person who left the comment apologized for leaving it [...]

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One of the first things I noticed about WP 2.6 was the inclusion of captions for photos. I hated them. Well, I didn’t hate them. I hated having to deal with the CSS to get them to work. I also didn’t like the javascript window which opened (very slowly I might [...]

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Is the Weight worth the Freight
I wrote in July 2007 about “Photos an Overlooked Part of Your Real Estate Blog Traffic” In short when you host your own photos and reference them in posts the photos and the URL to those photos get indexed by the search engines. They store those links and [...]

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Please note, I’m not saying it had a virus. IT DID NOT. It had a cold. A cold I gave it while trying to nurse it back to health.
Typical isn’t it. Break something while trying to fix it.
Last night the lab was running the slowest I had ever seen it run. [...]

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